Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (T-Maj. A. L. Skinner, 4-6 Raj Rif.) nearly extremely fine £120-£160

Dix Noonan Webb, June 2002.

Arthur Lennox Skinner was born on 12 January 1889 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant on 9 Septemebr 1908. Appointed to the Indian Army on 10 December 1909, he was promoted Captain on 1 September 1915 and served with the 122 Rajputs in the Great War, participating in operations in Mesopotamia from 8 November 1916 to 31 October 1918, and then post-War in Persia from 26 March 1919 until 17 June 1921. He was four times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 12 March 1918, 27 August 1918, 5 June 1919 and 9 September 1921).